Terms of Use

Who this is between

You and Camden Brown and Kasen Afflerbach, the two people who make Briefly. "We" and "us" means them.

You agree to these terms, and to the Privacy Policy, by ticking the box when you create your account. We keep a note of which version you agreed to and when. If you do not agree, that is completely fine — just do not use Briefly.

How old you have to be

At least 13. If you live somewhere that sets a higher age for agreeing to something like this on your own, that age applies to you instead, or you need a parent or guardian to agree for you.

If you are under 18, you are confirming a parent or guardian has read these terms with you and is fine with you using Briefly.

Signup asks your age range. Answer it truthfully: an account made by giving a false age breaks these terms, and if we learn it belongs to someone under the minimum we delete it.

Your account

• Use an email address you actually control, and keep your password to yourself.
• One account per person, and do not use somebody else’s.
• What happens on your account is down to you. If you think someone else is in it, tell us straight away.

What Briefly is

A short feed of cards from a small number of people who are building things, which then ends. The ending is the point.

Only entrepreneurs can post, and only once we have given their account posting rights. We give them to people we believe are genuinely building something, and we can take them away if their posts break these terms. Not being able to post is how it is meant to work, not a fault.

We might change how the app works, add things, take things away, or stop running it altogether. We are not going to dress this up as a service with guarantees behind it: it is early, it is made by two people, and it will sometimes break.

Paying for it, and refunds

Briefly is free to download for the first month after launch. After that month, new downloads cost a one-time price, shown on the App Store before you buy. If you downloaded it for free during that month, it stays free for you — we do not charge anyone after the fact for an app they already have, and the price can change later without affecting what you already paid, or did not pay.

You buy it through the App Store, and Apple takes the payment — we never see your card or payment details. There is no subscription and nothing to cancel.

Refunds are handled by Apple, not by us, because Apple holds the money. To ask for one, go to reportaproblem.apple.com, sign in with the Apple ID you bought Briefly with, and choose the purchase. Apple decides under its own refund policy.

If something is wrong with the app itself, email hello@brieflysite.com as well. We cannot refund you directly, but we can fix what is broken.

What not to post

This covers everything you put into Briefly — comments, your name, your bio, your photo, and posts. Do not use it for:

• Harassment, bullying, hate speech, or slurs aimed at anyone — including for their race, ethnicity, where they are from, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexuality.
• Threats, or anything encouraging violence or self-harm.
• Sexual content or nudity. Anything sexualising a minor gets reported to the authorities and the account removed permanently, with no appeal.
• Spam, scams, phishing, or recruiting people into pyramid and multi-level marketing schemes.
• Guaranteed-returns claims, faked earnings screenshots, or any money promise you cannot back up.
• Somebody else’s work passed off as yours, or anything you do not have the right to share.
• Another person’s private information, or pretending to be someone you are not.
• Anything illegal where you are, or anything built to break, overload or exploit the app.

Also: do not scrape the app, automate it, or pull it apart to rebuild it somewhere else.

None of this is financial advice

Briefly is people describing what happened to them while trying to build something. That is experience. It is not advice.

Nothing here is financial, investment, tax, legal or business advice, and nobody posting is your adviser. What you do with your money is your decision and your risk. If it is a decision that matters, talk to someone qualified — genuinely.

Reporting, blocking, and what we do about it

Every post, comment and profile has a Report option, and you can block anyone. Blocking works both ways — they stop seeing you as well, and you can undo it under You › Blocked.

Reports come to the two of us and we read them. We may remove anything breaking these rules and delete accounts that do, with or without warning depending on what it was. We are not going to pretend a rule exists when it does not, but we are also not going to argue every call.

If something needs attention faster than a report, email hello@brieflysite.com.

What you post stays yours

You own what you write and what you upload. You are not signing it over to us and we will never claim it.

You do give us permission to store it, show it inside Briefly, and make the copies that requires — a resized photo, a still from the first frame of a video. That permission costs nothing, exists only so the app can display your own post back to you and to other people, and ends when you delete the post or your account.

You are confirming that what you post is yours to post, and that showing it in Briefly does not tread on anybody else’s rights.

If someone copies your work

If something in Briefly infringes your copyright, email hello@brieflysite.com and tell us: what the work is, where in the app the copy is, your contact details, and a statement that you believe in good faith it is not authorised and that what you are telling us is accurate.

We will look at it and take down anything that should not be there. We can also remove accounts that keep doing it. If your post was removed and you think that was wrong, reply to us and say so — a person reads it, not a system.

Ideas you send us

There is a "Request a feature" button in the app and we would love you to use it. If you send us an idea, we may build it, and we will not owe you anything for it. That is not us being sharp — it is so that building something two people asked for does not turn into an argument about who thought of it.

Our side of it

The app itself — the name, the design, the code, the words we wrote — is ours. Using Briefly does not give you the right to take any of that and use it somewhere else.

Ending it

You can leave whenever you like: You tab, then Delete my account. It removes your account and everything attached to it, and there is no undo.

We can end your access if you break these rules, or if we stop running Briefly. When we remove an account, its posts and comments go with it — we do not keep the content of someone we have removed.

If we shut Briefly down we will try to give you warning. A small app made by two people is not in a position to promise you a notice period, and promising one we might not manage would be worth less than saying this.

What we do not promise

Briefly comes as it is. We do not promise it will be available, correct, uninterrupted, or right for whatever you have in mind, and we are disclaiming the warranties the law lets us disclaim.

We do not check whether what other people post is true. What is in a post belongs to whoever posted it, not to us.

Where our responsibility stops

As far as the law allows: we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or knock-on losses, or for lost profits, lost opportunities or lost data, from your use of Briefly.

Where liability cannot be excluded at all, it is capped at whichever is greater — what you paid for Briefly, or ten US dollars.

Some places do not allow limits like these. If you are in one of them, they do not apply to you, and nothing here takes away a right you have that cannot be signed away.

If you get us into trouble

If something you post or do in Briefly lands us with a legal claim from someone else — you posted something that was not yours, or you used the app to do something you should not have — you agree to cover us for it.

This is not aimed at ordinary use. Nobody is coming after you for a comment somebody disagreed with.

What Apple has to do with this

If you got Briefly from the App Store, Apple asks us to spell this out, and it is worth knowing anyway:

• This agreement is between you and us. It is not with Apple, and Apple is not responsible for Briefly or anything in it.
• Your licence to use Briefly covers Apple-branded devices you own or control, under Apple’s usage rules.
• Apple has no obligation to provide any support or maintenance for Briefly. If you need help, come to us.
• If Briefly fails to work as promised, you can tell Apple and Apple will refund the price you paid for it. Beyond that refund, Apple has no warranty obligation, and anything else is down to us.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for dealing with any claim about the app: product liability, a legal or regulatory problem, or consumer protection.
• We, not Apple, are responsible if someone claims Briefly infringes their intellectual property.
• You confirm you are not in a country the US has embargoed or designated as supporting terrorism, and are not on a US list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Questions or complaints about the app go to hello@brieflysite.com.
• Apple and its subsidiaries can enforce these terms against you as a third-party beneficiary of them.

If we disagree

Email us first at hello@brieflysite.com. Nearly everything gets sorted that way, and we would much rather fix a problem than argue about one.

If it genuinely cannot be, these terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and any dispute goes to the state or federal courts in Texas. Both of us agree to that.

Nothing here stops you taking a complaint to a consumer body or regulator where you live, if that is a right you have.

If you are a consumer in the European Union or the United Kingdom, the consumer protection law of the country you live in still applies to you where it cannot be contracted out of, and you can bring a claim in the courts where you live. Nothing in these terms takes away a right that law gives you.

The small print about the small print

• If a court decides one part of this does not hold up, the rest still does. The unenforceable bit gets narrowed to whatever is allowed, and everything else carries on.
• If we do not enforce something straight away, we have not given up the right to enforce it later.
• If Briefly is sold or handed on, this agreement goes with it. You cannot transfer yours to someone else.
• This page and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about Briefly, and they replace anything either of us said before.

When this page changes

Last updated September 21, 2026. If we change these terms the date changes with them and the copy in the app updates at the same time. For a change that matters, we will tell you in the app before it applies. Carrying on using Briefly after that means you are fine with the new version; if you are not, delete your account and nothing is held against you.

Talk to us

hello@brieflysite.com — it reaches both of us.